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Hello, my dears near and far! I’m thrilled to say that I have quite a healthy handful of in-person AND online shows coming up between now and the end of October! Here they are:

1. EARTH WARRIORS FESTIVAL 2022

Evening, September 24, 2022

Back to back with Frenchy & the Punk!

4H Camp Graham, 164 Springhill Rd, Clarksville, OH 45113

https://www.earthwarriorsfestival.org/

S. J. Tucker returns to EWF with her dynamic tour mate, Renée Janski!  Fall in love with Renée’s rich voice and gutsy piano! Let S. J.’s witchy wit and whimsy carry you away to kingdoms unknown!  Neither of these Arkansas-born songwriters can imagine life without music, and they don’t want you to have to do that, either.  Join us at EWF for fierce original songs from two Glamazon Witchy Warrior Queens on piano, guitar, hand drums, and bass.  S. J. and Renée have performed and traveled together for many years, and they can’t wait to see you–EWF will mark some of their first new shared adventures on tour this decade.  Our splendid fellow performers include Primal Rhythm, Soolah Hoops, Brian Henke, and the one & only Frenchy & the Punk!

2. Cincinnati: Sooj & Renée in Concert

September 26, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

St. John’s UU Church, 320 Resor Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45220

$15 donation at the door

Join us for an evening of music with S. J. Tucker & Renée Janski! Both have performed in Cinci before, but never before together!  Magic, mischief, and musical sass are all on the bill! $15 love donation at the door. Masks and social distancing encouraged.  Special thanks to Shelley Graff & the Cincinnati Womyn Singing in Sacred Circle, who’ll sing a special opening set!  Venue is ADA compliant.  See you there!

In case you missed it, Renée and I shared a FUN rehearsal video from the other night: https://youtu.be/GpcpK1iYbaM

3. Sooj & Renée perform in Midtown Memphis

October 7, 2022 @ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

Black Lodge, 405 N Cleveland, Memphis, TN 38104

$15 advance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sj-tucker-and-band-in-concert-tickets-295399226037 $20 at the door

Fantom Events & The Broom Closet are bringing Sooj & Renée to Midtown for one night only, and it’s sure to be a night of witchy musical goodness! Join us at Black Lodge’s new local event space for a saucy, sassy, song-filled evening like no other!  Missed you, Memphis; let’s do this!

4. FREE Online show: S. J., Meren King, Cloud, and Jon Anastasio perform at the 2022 Correllians Livestream Fundraiser!

October 8, 2022 – 5pm-11pm Central (S. J. performs at 9pm)

The group is raising money to send a group to the Parliament of World’s Religions 2023, to represent the Pagan Community! Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MagickTv

Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/Correllians.Live/videos/657956278511108/

or Pagan World TV on Roku!

Tips welcome via PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo: sjtuckermusic

5. Online show: S. J. & Renée Janski, Celestial + Spooky

October 29, 2022 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

$12 and up: https://onlineconcertthing.com/product/s-j-tucker-renee-janski-2022-10-29-0800-pm-cdt/

Join two of our favorite sassy song-sisters for something of the celestial and the spooky, blended together for a single night! Let S. J. and Renée’s respective original songs (as well as a couple of borrowed surprises) sweep you away by moonlight: piano, guitar, bass, hand drums, jazz, blues, rock, and soul in the hands of these consummate performers make a recipe to remember! Costumes optional, enchantment guaranteed. Exclusive downloads and more assured!

I’ll also stick around to help Renée with the hybrid online Day of Remembrance service on October 30 at UU Fellowship of Fayetteville. Join us (masked) in person or online: https://www.uufayetteville.org/

And that’s all I’ve got between now and Halloween, except that maybe, just maybe I’ll be ready to release the official music video for “Alchemist Eyes” as well as getting the song released as a single on all the big streaming platforms! If I manage that before Halloween, I’ll post right away!

As always, if you want to see ALL the shows I have planned through December (two more events at least!) just visit the tour calendar: http://sjtucker.com/tour

And if you’d like an EARLY peek at the music video and more, you’re always welcome at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sjtuckermusic

Hi, yall! I’ve got a virtual show today at my favorite hometown museum! Catch it today at 2pm central OR tonight at 9pm central if you can: onlineconcertthing.com/product/s-j-tucker-2022-07-28-0900-pm-cdt/

Check out the preview video I made for everyone to enjoy: youtu.be/8nQuBxO0fsQ

You’re also welcome to join my Patreon (a few of you have already done that this month, and I’m so happy! Thank you!) Patrons at all pledge tiers get access to all my show videos the month after they air:

Lonnie Scott, gentleman and scholar, host of the Weird Web Radio podcast, welcomed me as a new guest this month! We had a GREAT conversation. Check it out here or anywhere you get your podcasts. (Seriously, Lonnie asks great questions and this is one of my favorite recent interviews!) weirdwebradio.com/episode-78-sj-tucker-talking-trickster-prayers-music-and-magic/

Hi, folx! Just a couple of quick things to share with you for the month of May.

THING ONE! I hope you can join me this May 7 OR 10 for this month’s online show! Get your ticket for $5 or more here! My special guest will be my story-bestie Catherynne M. Valente, and she’s got a new book out that’ll knock your fairytale socks off. Come and hear her read passages from her work (her voice, her delivery, AND her writing are all quite good, I’m telling you!) between songs! We’ve also got door prizes available, including signed goodies & jewelry inspired by my lyrics, unlocking at 25 tickets sold & 50 tickets sold. Invite your friends, choose the showtime that suits your schedule better (you only need one ticket for both May 7 at 2pm Central and/or May 10 at 9pm Central), and join us!

Here’s an image you may share on your socials if you like, to help us spread the word.

​More about Catherynne & her new Middle Readers novel, Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods, which she describes as a gender-swapped Persephone story, set in the world of Where the Wild Things Are.

THING TWO! Bandcamp Friday will be back again this May 6 from midnight to midnight Pacific! I’ll be doing a special Bandcamp release of the brand new “Firebird’s Child” remix, on which I got to collaborate with Dead Beat, my new Midwest witchy DJ buddy! It’s streaming on all the usual places now (YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Deezer & more) but if you’d like to download it directly from me, you may do so starting this Friday via my Bandcamp store! Bandcamp Friday is when the Bandcamp platform gives artists an extra cut of sales on the first Friday of just about every month; they’ve been doing this for us since before the pandoodle began.

Hi, my stars! It’s Bandcamp Friday, April Fool’s Day, AND Concert Day for me!

I didn’t get this new live song posted in the middle of the night like I’d planned, but here it is now: http://music.sjtucker.com/track/april-fools-day-live-2022

I wish you a sweet, fulfilling April Fool’s Day with only good suprises!

Come see my online show TONIGHT or Sunday afternoon if you can: https://onlineconcertthing.com/product/s-j-tucker-2022-04-01-9-pm-cst/

Thank you all for letting me be your Sacred Fool today!

Hi, everyone! I’ve got lots of news and links to share with you today! Here goes.

We have a Swiss-based cousin whose colleagues are taking a long trip today, March 4, to get supplies to the Polish-Ukrainian border. If you’d like to support what they’re doing, use this link to donate: https://tinyurl.com/bsbschoolfund More information here.​

My musical colleague Daniel Katsük (you may also recognize his voice-over chops in Dragonball Z or Full Metal Alchemist!) released a book of children’s stories on my birthday! It will soon be available to order everywhere, but for now, here it is on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/mysticallakesbook​

Bandcamp Friday is BACK all day today, March 4! Please feel free to share my music link around & download anything you might have missed. I’ve got everything I can afford set to “name your price”, and if you spend money on me, I’ll get a slightly larger share from midnight to midnight Pacific. Thank you!

I don’t have an online show this month, BUT I’ve got one live appearance on March 18, my first of the year, an outdoor event down in Florida. Please let me know if you’re planning to be there! More info here: http://sjtucker.com/tour All my thanks to Phoenix Festivals for rescheduling to bring me back, after all this time, since the 2020 event was postponed! (Also, if anyone knows any good swimmable springs to visit near Bell, Florida, please let me know! Have mermaid tail, will travel!). It doesn’t look like this event will have a virtual option for those unable to attend in person, but rest assured that I am still advocating for as many witchy events and cons as possible to do this from now on.

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My next online show on the theme of Tricksters in Wonderland will be April 1st with a replay on April 3rd! Tickets available now: https://onlineconcertthing.com/product/s-j-tucker-2022-04-01-9-pm-cst/​

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Yesterday, March 3, actor and puppeteer Melissa Stanton released a new short film which features my song, “Witch’s Rune”! I’ve added it to my soundtrack placements video playlist for your convenience: click here to watch!

Hi, folx! I’ve got only one online show this month, Sunday February 6 at 3pm Central, shared with Renée Janski! Just counting down the hours until showtime now, and I’d love for you to join us! Here’s the ticket link! If you miss it, I’ll offer the video for purchase later at Online Concert Thing.

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Bandcamp Friday is TODAY, February 4, and I’ve re-released some old live tracks for the occasion! Grab them at my store here! You can listen before you purchase. All artists will receive an extra 15% of each sale from Midnight to Midnight Pacific time! Thank you all for your support!

Last month I was interviewed on a new-to-me podcast called Shadow Transmission, curated by my new friends in the underground goth & darkwave music scene of Central Arkansas- I didn’t even know we had one of those, neither the scene nor the podcast! Anyhow, I think the interview and the episode turned out great! DJ Hollow is an excellent host and I really enjoyed our conversation. Listen here or wherever you enjoy podcasts.​

PSA: As far as I know, it came to the attention of just about the whole internet on February 1st that one purported NFT marketing website claimed it was offering NFT’s (art or other media sold exclusively via cryptocurrency) involving music by just about every musician you can think of, even those of us out here chugging along under our own power, without a record label & with the help of your support, like me. Since it hadn’t yet come up until now, I just want to officially let you know that, unless you hear otherwise directly from me, any NFT site or product claiming to be involved with my music is lying. Please take care and don’t get scammed. I am taking steps to protect my work from this kind of presumptive near-theft, and I will be keeping an eye on the situation, along with my musician’s union, my digital distributor, and my legal counsel.

Sorry to get so serious there at the end! Thank you for sticking with me in this new year. I hope that you are well and safe, and that you have everything you need right now!

It’s been 13 years as of yesterday, January 13, since the Ravens in the Library anthology & the online #SaveOurSooj benefits, together with all the brilliant makers and musicians and authors and artists who make it happen, came to my rescue. I go days at a time without thinking about the scar, but not a day goes by that I’m not grateful.

2009 was before the ACA, let alone before we were all so accustomed to crowdfunding as its own thing. I was an indie musician with no health coverage, and the surgery I had to have could have pulled me out of my career and into a mountain of medical debt. But my community wasn’t having that.

Come see the online show tonight and help me celebrate!  Get tickets here!